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naturally detect it with disgust where 

 it was the least noticeable. Were we 

 not afraid that Mr. Pettit might object 

 to bouquets, however well deserved, we 

 would tell our readers that Mr. Pettit 

 has very favorably impressed the 

 writer with his cautious, judicious and 

 methodical ways. 



Origin of Honey-Dew. — Concerning 

 the origin of honey-dew. Dr. A. Heinz, 

 University professor at .Agram, reports 

 as the result of his observations : That 

 honey-dew is produced if unusual in- 

 crease of transpiration is excited by 

 strong light in leaves growing rapidly 

 and not too old, and high concentra- 

 tion of the sap is induced. If the dis- 

 turbance continues beyond a certain 

 limit, the leaf suffers and falls prema- 

 turely. The formation of honey-dew 

 does not always depend upon an abso- 

 lutely high stimulation of warmth and 

 light, but rather upon a sudden great 

 difference, which occurs, for instance, 

 when after very cool spring nights the 

 organ which has been suppressed, in 

 its activity suddenly receives the stim- 

 ulation of the intense morning sun. To 

 this P. Neuman adds: 



"I have also frequently observed on 

 young lindens upon which few plant- 

 lice were to be found, that the drops 

 which are supposed to be sprayed upon 

 the leaves by these insects were numer- 

 ous upon the uppermost tender leaves 

 where no lice were to be found at all." 

 — BieticuwirtschaOh'c/it's Centralbhttt. 



Illinois State Meeting The Illinois 



State Association met as per call in 

 the State House at Springfield, Oct. 

 30 and 31. 



It was a very good meeting. Two 

 men of "National repute were present, 

 Mr. N. E. France and Mr. E. B. Tyrrell. 



Only one paper was read before the 

 Association. The other contributors 

 opened their subjects by speaking in- 

 stead of reading essays. But the dis- 

 cussions were lively and the question- 

 box well supplied. 



The most interesting part of the pro- 

 gram was a talk by N. E. France, who 

 spoke on divers labor-saving methods 

 and devices. Any person who hears 

 Mr. France becomes easily convinced 

 that he is as much of a benefactor to 

 the apiarian public through these talks 

 as he was through his management of 

 the National .Association. 



Mr. France spoke with praise of the 

 concrete hive-stands. He thinks they 

 should come into general use. But he 

 spoke disparagingly of concrete hive- 

 covers, which some persons recom- 

 mend. He tried them and found them 

 too heavy, too lirittle, and too much 

 subject to temperature changes, for 

 they are, he says, "too cold in winter 

 and too hot in summer." He spoke of 

 having tried salt water in troughs side 

 by side with clear water, and that the 

 bees visited in preference the salt water, 

 but it should not be heavily salted; 

 only enough to taste the salt. 



He advised, when you build a bee- 

 house, to place the joists just far 

 enough apart to hang frames between 

 them.by nailing a projecting strip on 

 the underside of the joist, for the ends 

 or shoulders to rest upon. In this 

 connection he emphasized a remark 



made elsewhere by the Editor, that 

 frames which are hanging freely in an 

 open space without being close to 

 each other are much less apt to be in- 

 fested by the moth. 



Mr. France also stated thatthe moth- 

 balls sold by all druggists for keeping 

 moth away from woolen clothes in the 

 summer will also keep the bee-moth 

 away from combs in a box or a hive. 

 But, to his mind, the bi-sulphide of 

 carbon saturating a small rag and in- 

 serted in a hive is the best moth-killer. 



Two resolutions were brought for- 

 ward by the Resolutions Committee 

 and were passed unanimously. The 

 first was to recommend the establish- 

 ing of a course of apiculture at the 



all members free of charge. Those of 

 our Illinois readers wlio do not yet be- 

 long to the State .'Vssociation, should 

 not hesitate to send their $1.00 or $1.50 

 for both Associations to Mr. Jas. A. 

 Stone, Rt 4, Springfield, 111. 



The election of officers, which took 

 place at the last hour, resulted as fol- 

 lows: President, E. J. Baxter; Vice- 

 Presidents, W. B. Moore, H. S. Duby. 

 Aaron Coppin, G. M. Withrow, I. E. 

 Pyles; Secretary, Jas. A. Stone; Treas- 

 urer, Chas. Becker. 



Sweet Clover is a Biennial. — By over- 

 sight, an error at the lop of page 302 

 was allowed to pass uncorrected. It is 



Memhers Present at the Illinois State Meeting. 



First row, left to right— J. H. Roberts, E. B. Tyrrell. N. E. France. C. P. Dadant. Chas. 

 Becker, E. J. Baxter. Xavier Widmer. Second row— W. B. Moore. W. H, Gray. L. C. Dadant. 

 Jas. A. Stone. G. M. Withrow. D. S. Beeler, J. M. Beeler. Third row-B. L, Sherril. H. S. 

 Duby, B. O. Vaughn. H, 1,. King, W. H. Stumm. A. Coppin. Miss Coppin. Miss Stewart. 



State University, the other an increase 

 of the premium list of prizes by the 

 State Fair management to equal that of 

 Minnesota. 



A very interesting part of the pro- 

 gram was the statement made by Mr. 

 Tyrrell, the National Secretary, con- 

 cerning the present and future of the 

 National Association. He acknowl- 

 edged that there were flaws in the Con- 

 stitution which must be mended at the 

 coming February meeting, but ex- 

 plained what great hopes he had for 

 the future of the Association. It was 

 generally conceded that we must be 

 patient and give the new arrangements 

 a fair trial. Meanwhile the State .'\s- 

 sociation voted to accept members at 

 the former price of $1.00, with the un- 

 derstanding that such members would 

 not reap the benefits of membership 

 in the National on an equality with 

 those who paid $1..')C) for membership 

 in both. 



This is only a short synopsis of the 

 meeting. The full report, taken down 

 by Miss Stewart, the usual stenographer 

 of the State Association, will be pub- 

 lished in book form in the same man- 

 ner as formerly, and will be mailed to 



there said that sweet clover is a per- 

 ennial, and does not bloom until its 

 second season's growth. Unless there 

 is a brand of sweet clover in Texas 

 different from that which grows farther 

 east, none of it lives longer than two 

 years. The most of it is biennial, 

 grows one year, blossoms and seeds 

 the second year, and then dies, root 

 and branch. None of it Jives through 

 the second winter. There is one kind 

 of yellow sweet clover that is not even 

 biennial, but annual. 



Massachusetts' Ten-Weeks' Course. — 



We wish to call attention of the bee- 

 keepers to the opportunities offered by 

 The Extension Service of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, in the 

 Ten-Weeks' Course, beginning Jan. (1. 

 A course in bee-keeping is designed 

 which will be a general, practical sur- 

 vey of the maintenance of bees, not 

 only for their products, but as an ad- 

 junct to modern agriculture. Special 

 effort will be made to correlate the 

 subject with the various phases of hor- 

 ticulture; namely, fruit growing, cran- 

 berry culture, market gardening and 



